However, they are still waiting on confirmation that the money will be made available.

The councillor believes that the dereliction is “part and parcel” of the anti-social behaviour and that “it just doesn’t help”.

“The conditions are horrendous and it’s causing a lot of mental anguish for those that are feeling isolated on balconies on their own. This needs to be moved on, there’s an urgency with this,” said Críona Ní Dhalaigh.

According to Ruairí McGinley, the Fine Gael Dublin South councillor, good progress has been made in de-tenanting those from the left-side block.

He stated that plans are in place to refurbish those same blocks and to move the residents from the right side over.

“They have contractors ready to go; they are just finalising the design work, so the probability is that in June they’ll be able to start work on that,” said Ruairí McGinley.